This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Looks like someone took the Potty Rander correspondence course. Might be a case for the PTG lynch mob. AF ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Dempsey Jr., Paul E" <dempsey@marshall.edu> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: Here's a new one > Yesterday I had occasion to tune a Yamaha U1 upright for a lady that = just moved into my area from a town upstate (Fairmont WV). She said that = her tuner in Fairmont, a former coal miner, said that it was imperative = that her piano be "de-tuned" before being moved to protect the = soundboard, plate, etc. from damage due to the strain and jostling = brought on by the move. >=20 > Sure enough, every string had the pitch lowered almost completely = slack, just enough tension to hold the coils in place!! >=20 > And he charged her a full tuning fee to do it = "=E2=82=AC=C5=A0=C3=A6=C3=8B=C3=9F=E2=80=A1..." >=20 >=20 > What a mess....the mind reels:-( >=20 > Even though this yutz is out of the mines he's still in the dark. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Paul E. Dempsey, RPT > Piano Technician Sr. > Marshall University > Huntington, WV > 304-696-5418 > 304-617-1149 >=20 > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3a/fa/a7/3f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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